Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Victory

There was an announcement today (April Fools Day) by NBC,
ABC and others that Mr. Obama took a “Victory Lap” around the Rose Garden at
the White House because on the last day to sign up for Obamacare without a fine
of some kind, they have tallied over 7 million sign-ups. How many of them were folks that never had
healthcare before? We will not talk
about that. Never mind the fact that
when the law went into effect over 6 million healthcare insurance owners LOST
their insurance and are now scurrying to find something similar to what they
had but unfortunately it is not as good and more expensive. Obama said, “It is the law, get used to it.”

As senior citizens trying to live on a moderated to low
fixed income, my wife and I are outraged at the abuse heaped upon folks like us
by our government. We have paid into “the
system” all our lives and the very people that have sworn an oath to protect us
and guard against harm from foreign and domestic enemies are the ones that have
turned against us. We find it needful to
embrace non-profit and non-partisan organizations to inform, enlist and inspire
seniors to STOP the government take over of our healthcare. We lost all confidence in groups like AARP
when they cut sweet deals for themselves in the back rooms of D.C. with elitist
money-grubbing politicians to the hurt of millions of dues paying senior
citizens. We say, “Shame on them all!”

According to an article in Bloomberg, the closer you look at
Obamacare, the worse it appears to be.
The Examiner says Obamacare is a stealth ambush of senior citizens. Forbes magazine has an article that says the
States are rebelling against Obamacare.
The Wall Street Journal tells us how Obamacare GUTS Medicare. Oh, but it is a great victory for some. What a world we are forced to live in.

1 comment:

Do you remember when the communists in Congress and the White House were crying the blues over some 24 million Americans they said had no health insurance and couldn't afford it? Their answer was socialized healthcare.

With taxpayer funded healthcare those poor 24 million people cold finally get the healthcare they deserve. They called it a "right." You know, like the "right" to free speech and the "right" to bear arms- -well, maybe not that. Maybe more like the "right" to kill a baby in the womb- -you know the Fourth Amendment right to privacy? Now after five years of debate, four years of extensions and miscues, the occupant of the Oval Office has claimed victory- -he's lying again.

"At midnight last night we surpassed everyone's expectation," like a proud peacock he boasted. He also claimed that "millions of people who have health insurance would not have it" without his socialist healthcare law. He's lying! And it is a pretty outright and fantastic lie at that. He announced that 7.1 million people enrolled for socialist healthcare. But a RAND Corporation study sourced by the UK Daily Mail says that only 858,000 previously uninsured Americans have paid for new policies and now have taxpayer funded healthcare. That's a far cry from 7.1 million and only 3.6% of that 24 million who the communists argued were uninsured.

Here you have a law that mandates all Americans must have health insurance.Hundreds of thousands lost their insurance because of the mandate to have it. Corporations and small to medium sized businesses have cut workweek hours and their workforce to avoid the mandate. There have been numerous reports of fraud.

People that have signed up for the socialist healthcare are unable to keep their doctors as promised, and many are being denied care because of the countless regulations and red tape. The best these communists have to offer is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying that these very well documented reports are untrue. Every American will have healthcare. It's the law.

While the White House is taking a victory lap, and the news media is celebrating the triumph, the numbers don't add up. The current population of the United States is approximately 316 million. So only 2.2% of the population is participating in mandated, taxpayer-funded healthcare.

Liars figure and figures lie.Socialized healthcare is an abysmal failure as a service to the people. As an anchor of a communist coup, it is a tremendous success. As the president says, "The debate over repealing the law is over. The Affordable Care Act is here to stay."

How do you like beingforced to pay for something that is of no benefit to you?

Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you."Deception comes with a price. Will you remember?

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Here is 295 pages, including appendixes, of historic biography that is not butchered by modern day secular revisionists. It was originally published in 1842 by the American Sunday School Union and is filled with quotes directly from the very journals of Washington and anecdotes given by eyewitness accounts of events in the life of the father of our nation. If there is one book that gives a true and honest account of the life of Washington, this is it. This volume has tenderness about it even though it is set in very troublesome times. There is often insight as to how the patriotic women of the revolutionary days helped behind the scenes and the relationship between Washington and his revered mother is an aspect of the story that is thoughtfully penned. The story of the treason of Benedict Arnold showed in particular how the providence of God prevented that chapter from being much more harmful to the Colonists than it was at the time. The modern political correct crowd will literally freak out when they read how easy it is to write the truth about the Christian influence in the lives of American founding fathers like General George Washington.

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American Politics

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BIAS by Bernard Goldberg

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The Anti-Federalist Papers

Here is 406 pages about some of the most important events in the history of America. The decade of 1770 – 1780 was a crucial time. After the Revolutionary War and the break from Briton, most modern Americans do not realize how much thought, discussion and debate occurred in the establishment of the founding documents of the Constitution. After the Declaration of Independence and the Colonial Rebellion, a Constitutional Convention was held by our founding fathers to draft the founding documents of our nation in 1787. Until that time, our national politics was based on the Articles of Confederation 1777. A copy of this document is in the appendix of this book. The draft of the Constitution that came out of the convention was the result of great debate and that was only the beginning. Some of our founders saw the need for a stronger central government. They were called Federalists. Their arguments in favor of the immediate ratification of the draft presented by the Constitutional Convention are found in The Federalist Papers. These are articles written and published in newspapers and sometimes in pamphlets for the citizens to read. Not having radio & television this is how we learned about the political issues in those days. In answer to the Federalist articles, there were the Anti-Federalists who also wrote responses called the Anti-Federalist Papers against the immediate ratification of the Constitution voicing concern of the loss of liberty to a government that might turn into what we fought to free ourselves from in the revolution. Federalists like Alexander Hamilton wrote articles under the pen name Publius and Anti-Federalists like Patrick Henry wrote under other names like Brutus. Although the Anti-Federalists lost the debate, we have them to thank for the Bill of Rights being added as amendments our Constitution.

Original Intent

This is a very important book for people of faith to read regarding what has happened to the religious climate of public modern America. Unbelieving haters of biblical standards have taken over America from within. By rewriting and or ignoring the original intent of the authors of the founding documents of America, a so-called politically correct movement has corrupted the American way by usurping every branch of our government and is turning our constitutional republic of free citizens into a socialist democracy that is subservient to the elitists of globalism. Learn about the misleading metaphor used in this arena and read the actual quotes of the founding fathers in contrast to what modern politicians, activists and justices say about Christianity in the public square.

Backfired

This is a great book for showing how the doctrine and practice of “Tolerance” began in the Colonies of what became the United States of America. In modern thought, tolerance is putting up with somebody or something that is irritating or unpleasant to you. However, as surely as historical revisionists have rewritten American History, the original definition of tolerance has changed too. Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of The English Language defined it as – Allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a State when they are different from those of the established church… For example, the Protestant religion might be tolerated in France and the Roman Catholic religion might be tolerated in England. Tolerance did not begin in Saudi Arabia where it still means the death penalty if someone converts from Islam to another religion. Nor did it come out of Communist China or the former atheistic Soviet Union where those who believed differently than the State had to meet in underground groups or be killed or imprisoned. It did not come from Medieval Europe, the Middle East, Africa or the Far East. Tolerance is an American Judeo-Christian contribution to the world. The reason the old definition of tolerance is important is because in the 15-1700’s, what ever the King believed the kingdom had to practice or be persecuted or flee. Many of those who fled came to North America where the concept of toleration began to grow. The first Colonists were Separatists and Puritans from England who did not immediately start to offer toleration to others mainly because they still feared that if others gained power it would rekindle the persecution from which they had fled. More and more pilgrims began to flee the religious persecution of Europe and slowly but surely the Colonists began to realize that if they expected others to tolerate them then they must also tolerate others. The book shows a list of where different denominations had settlements in the Colonies of the 1600’s. In early America, the Puritans began to tolerate other Protestants and Separatists, then Catholics, then any who professed Christianity, then Jews, and in time, all Monotheists, then polytheists and other non-Christian religions, and eventually anti-religionists and atheists. This, of course, all took time but here is the rub. Our tolerance has evolved to where the modern “Politically Correct” crowd has taken control of our government and reversed the role of tolerance. We are at the place now where God, the Bible and Christianity are banned from the public square in America, especially in our public schools. Even worse, people of faith are being forced to legitimatize acts like abortion and immoral lifestyles that are offensive to their conscience or else be branded as “intolerant” and suffer penalty under new laws that pervert the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As the early Pilgrims feared, the government has once again become tyrannical, this time, not by the so-called divine right of the King but in the name of pseudo tolerance. Those who brought tolerance to the world are no longer tolerated. Where did we go wrong? How did this all BACK FIRE on the people of God and the Bible? Those that attack the Bible, public prayer and the display of religious symbols say they are doing it in the name of tolerance but the real question is – Are they not the ones that are being intolerant? Tolerance does not come by lowering our standards or forcing people to approve what is wrong in their heart.

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I've been reading this book yearly for many years and I NEVER get tired of it. I believe it is the inspired word of God. God is real and God has spoken. God does not LIE. God has revealed to us His will in the 66 books of the Bible. All other books, people, lives and things must be judged on the basis of what is said in THIS one book. LJK

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Killion is an Irish name that means grandson of war but I am a lover. Dad was a career soldier. I was born at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma but grew up all over the place. Saved 1958. Married 1965. Surrendered to preach 1974. Bi-vocational preacher recently retired from secular job with Transit agency in Tacoma, Washington. Pastor of The Lords Baptist Church. Two daughters. Four grandchildren. One Great-grandson. Author.